DNA, blood test findings link suspect to victim

DNA, blood test findings link suspect to victim

JAKARTA (JP): DNA tests done on sperm found in the body of a
murdered child and tissue samples from Siswanto, alias Robot,
match, an expert at the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital said
on Saturday.

Robot, an alleged pedophile, is suspected in the killings of
10 boys.

The hospital's forensics expert, Abdul Mun'im Idris, told a
police officer at the Central Jakarta police precinct that
Siswanto's DNA matches the DNA found in the sperm left in the
body of Asikin.

"The hospital is now recording the official test results,
which will be sent in a report to the police precinct," the
officer who asked for anonymity, told The Jakarta Post over the
weekend.

The 32-year-old scavenger's blood and spittle were tested on
Aug. 8 by the hospital laboratory to determine his blood and DNA
types. The hospital also examined the sperm found in the body of
Asikin, which was discovered on July 5.

Asikin, 14, was one of 10 boys believed to have been sodomized
and murdered by Robot. Asikin and three other boys were killed in
the Pondok Kopi area, East Jakarta. Four boys were killed in the
defunct Kemayoran airport in Central Jakarta, while two others
were killed in Kroya and Purwokerto, Central Java.

During preliminary interrogation, Robot admitted to having
killed 12 boys, but police have found only 10 bodies.

Robot recently helped police re-enact the murders he allegedly
committed in Central Jakarta.

Central Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Abubakar Nataprawira
earlier said the results of the DNA and blood tests were needed
to strengthen the charges against the suspect, even though he had
made a confession.

"He has a strong memory. He remembers precisely the places
where he committed the crimes and left the bodies of the children
he said he had killed," Abubakar said.

Because the suspect's behavior is considered strange, the
police have sent him for a psychiatric examination.

Psychiatric test

Siswanto's lawyer, Najab Khan, earlier told the Post that a
psychiatric test will decide whether the suspect is in sound
mental condition.

"I hope the result of the psychiatric test may reduce the
penalty. How can a murderer honestly admitted his crimes?" Najab
said recently.

Robot, who said he was sodomized when he was 11, claimed that
he told his mother, Dariah, each time he had killed a boy.

Robot is now in the custody of the East Jakarta police. He is
to help stage a reconstruction of the crimes he allegedly
committed in East Jakarta.

Siswanto was arrested on July 27 in a railway station in
Tegal, Central Java.

The suspect, who was born in Ketandan village, Batang regency
in Central Java, has lived in a slum area at Gaplok market, Senen
district, Central Jakarta, since he was six years old.

All of Robot's victims were street singers or shoeshine boys,
aged between nine to 16 years. (jun)